• Japanese electronics company Hitachi has unveiled slivers of glass that can store digital information for millions of years. The company said the slivers of quartz glass can endure extreme temperatures…
Read More(a) Schematic of the unipolar switching in SiOx, showing the typical set (red) and reset (blue) I-V curves (9). (b) Schematic of the SiOx thin-walled structure for in situ TEM…
Read MoreA dislocation in a crystal lattice, a disconnected region in its structure (represented by the array of atoms shown in blue) can separate from the rest of the lattice at…
Read MoreYesterday Owens-Illinois Inc., a company that describes itself as the world’s largest maker of glass containers, delivered a strategic signal to its customers and competitors, with the announcement it would be…
Read MoreA carbon fiber propped against a human hair. Was their “discovery” an accident? Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever wondered how carbon fibers were discovered? It turns out the guy…
Read MoreNo more broken glass? Theoretical work by researchers at Rice University shows the potential for doubling the strength of glass. Credit: Rice University. Glass is one of the intrinsically strongest…
Read MoreNuclear power plant control room. Credit: Wikipedia Commons. When Japan’s government last week suddenly announced that it would phase out its nuclear power plants by 2040, it probably thought it…
Read MoreSchematic illustration of a regular atomic array of ferromagnetic nano-domains formed by an unconventional strain relaxation in epitaxial thin film lanthanum cobaltite. Credit: Lee; ORNL. Bulk and “unbulk” materials behave…
Read MoreI’ve known for some time that glass–ceramic products can be machined, but I actually have never seen it done, so seeing that process and what tools have to be used,…
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